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- The government began to pacify the island, registering or confiscating firearms, collecting a head tax, and breaking the power of unscrupulous war leaders.
- Canadian courts also ruled that the government had no legal obligation to redress the head tax, but it had a moral obligation to do so.
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- The numbers of the Chinese immigration went from 20 000 a year to 8 people after the government imposed "head tax".
Head Tax 
- A poll tax, head tax, or capitation is a tax of a uniform, fixed amount per individual (as opposed to a percentage of income).
- As a result, the government of Canada passed The Chinese Immigration Act, 1885 levying a " Head Tax " of $50 on any Chinese coming to Canada.
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- The act was mostly to discourage the lower class Chinese from entering, since Canada still welcomed the rich Chinese merchants who could afford the head tax.
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- Economics > Money > Finance > Poll Tax
- Capitation
- Chinese Immigration
- Redress
- $50
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